Unit Box Elder
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit Box Elder is a hunt unit and covers about 8,962 square miles. Ground runs from 4,192 to 7,566 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Box Elder
Unit Box Elder is a hunt unit and covers about 8,962 square miles. Ground runs from 4,192 to 7,566 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Mule Deer in Unit Box Elder
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Box Elder and says nothing about where the mule deer stand inside it. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. It runs to about 8,962 square miles.
What bounds unit Box Elder
UDWR draws unit Box Elder with a boundary that runs on I-15 and I-80, and on Salt Lake, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: George Peak, Raft River Mountains and Rosevere Point
Named high points inside the unit include George Peak at 9,574 feet, Raft River Mountains at 9,224 feet, Rosevere Point at 9,008 feet, Grouse Creek Mountains at 8,985 feet and Red Butte at 8,985 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer on open country use every fold and draw there is, and almost none of the flat.
Holding ground: Little Basin, Horse Heaven Gulch and Little Valley
Below them sit Little Basin at 7,234 feet, Horse Heaven Gulch at 7,120 feet, Little Valley at 7,044 feet, Clarks Basin at 7,036 feet and Browns Canyon at 6,992 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.
Water: Oregon Springs, Burnhope Spring and Poison Spring
Named sources include Oregon Springs, Burnhope Spring, Poison Spring, Salt Spring, Hooper Hot Springs and Blind Springs. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Before you apply: who owns this unit
A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land. Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,192 feet to 7,566 feet, averaging 4,543 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Box Elder terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: George Peak (9,574 ft), Raft River Mountains (9,224 ft), Rosevere Point (9,008 ft), Grouse Creek Mountains (8,985 ft)
Holding ground: Bull Flat (9,226 ft), Dry Fork Pine Creek (7,558 ft), Ingham Pass (7,527 ft), Oregon Springs, Burnhope Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Mule Deer in Unit Box Elder
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Box Elder that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Mule Deer Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 473 | 480 | 98.5% | — |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 19 | 19 | 100.0% | — |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 404 | 408 | 99.0% | — |
| Archery — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 32 | 32 | 100.0% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 607 | 615 | 98.7% | — |
| Any Legal Weapon — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 28 | 28 | 100.0% | — |
Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for mule deer in unit Box Elder, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 2,420 applicants for 1,317 licences, 54.4% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Archery, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 408 applicants for 404 licences, 99% drawn, no bonus points needed
- Any Legal Weapon, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 228 applicants for 147 licences, 64.5% drawn, 1 bonus point needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 62 applicants for 22 licences, 35.5% drawn, 9 bonus points needed
Utah draws on bonus points in a weighted random draw, not in point order, so the figure above is what it happened to take that year rather than a threshold you can plan to reach. More points buy more chances, never a turn. There are 2 further season-and-residency combinations in the recap for this unit. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24